: Redirecting a subdomain from wordpress.com to an external web address I have a question about redirecting a subdomain of a blog hosted on wordpress.com to an external URL. Given the following:
I have a question about redirecting a subdomain of a blog hosted on wordpress.com to an external URL.
Given the following:
1) I own a domain name foobar.com purchased from another registrar (not from wordpress.com).
2) I have purchased the custom domain option on wordpress.com, and have completed the configuration to make foobar.com resolve to foobar.wordpress.com.
3) I will establish an external site for a store, such as store.yahoo.com/foobar.
4) I want to redirect the subdomain store.foobar.com to store.yahoo.com/foobar.
How do I set up the custom DNS records within wordpress.com to accomplish this subdomain redirection, while leaving foobar.com pointed to my Wordpress blog? I suspect that the CNAME directive is involved, but I cannot figure out the required syntax.
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A CNAME DNS record will not perform a redirect. It will simply just cause the HTTP request to go to store.yahoo.com (if that is the object of the CNAME record) containing the HTTP header:
Host: store.foobar.com
Which Yahoo will not know how to process.
From the link you provided, Wordpress doesn't appear to offer a GUI redirect feature as a part of their DNS service. You may want to consider using your domain registrar's DNS service for this domain. That's what I do. My registrar is GoDaddy and they have an easy to use DNS manager that I use to create similar redirects.
If you need to keep your DNS with Wordpress, you need to have Wordpress configured to accept a request for store.foorbar.com and then in your Wordpress site, redirect that request to store.yahoo.com/foobar.
I will do more research to see how to accomplish that.
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